FBI Official Warns That ISIS Desperately Wants To Attack One Of America’s Most Glaring Weaknesses

ISIS has turned to cyberwarfare as another arrow in its quiver to attack the Western world.

One hacker, Junaid Hussain, exposed the personal information of hundreds of US military and government personnel. According to The Military Times, he exposed the names, emails, passwords and phone numbers of more than 1,480 members in the Air Force, Marine Corps, NASA, FBI, State Department, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

According to Hussain’s now-suspended Twitter account, ISIS urged “lone wolves” to “process the info and assassinate.”

The FBI told CNN that highly capable hacking software is available on the black market that could be used to target US energy companies.

However, it is very unlikely that ISIS would be able to conduct a cyberattack that took down a widespread part of the US power grid.

Jonathan Pollet, an ethical hacker and a founder of Red Tiger Security, wrote for Business Insider: “Hackers can’t take down the entire, or even a widespread portion of the US electric grid. From a logistical standpoint, this would be far too difficult to realistically pull off — and it’s not what we should be devoting our attention to. What is more realistic is for a cyberattack to cripple an individual utility, causing a blackout or disruption of service at the local level.”

Mark Lemery, the critical infrastructure protection coordinator for Utah, told CNN: “They’d love to do damage, but they just don’t have the capability.”